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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (3000)	11/4/2008 9:23:23 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 86355

I'll admit I'm woefully under-informed as to the details of the pros and cons of grid renovation (and look forward to more information). That said, everything I've read tends to agree with this article. Our grid is woefully overtaxed and in desperate need of restructuring and streamlining. The two models are interesting and I've never seen a good analysis. On the one hand you can go nuke plants and things like huge wind and solar 'farms', and spend the money for a grid to move that power all over the country. On the other side could go with a distributed plan of mostly solar and wind and (similar to current) smaller power plants... whatever works in a given area, and save the money on the national infrastructure (which could be used to subsidize the distributed production). I frankly don't know which is the best model... which leads me to think it's probably a combination of the two.